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Reinhard Heydrich was born on 7 March 1904, in Halle an der Saale, then part of the German Empire. His father, Bruno Heydrich, was an opera singer and the director of the music conservatory in Halle, which he had founded in 1901.
Reinhard, who was baptized a Roman Catholic, was an altar boy, attending evening prayers and Mass every week with his mother as part of the Catholic minority in Halle.
A talented athlete, Reinhard became an expert swimmer and fencer. He was shy, insecure, and was frequently bullied for his high-pitched voice and rumoured Jewish ancestry. However, the family maintained cordial relations with the Jewish community and many Jewish students also attended his father’s Halle Conservatory.
During World War I and its aftermath, due to economies imposed by the war, few townspeople in Halle could afford a musical education at Bruno Heydrich's conservatory which led to a financial crisis for his family.
As they struggled economically, Heydrich, still in his teens, was attracted to racist nationalism and watched demonstrations, strikes, and street battles in his hometown during the last year of the war and the revolutionary chaos that followed.
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